Boomers casually toss negative reference towards millennials, fire them without notice, ignore everything they do right and hyperfocus on tiny obsessions, take credit for their work etc. and it’s considered normal and then if you complain about it you’re just a complainer and shouldn’t ever find another job.
They screen millennials out of jobs except they’re very keen on outsourcing to India. They invite you for 2 – 3 interviews and then reject you at the last minute knowing they were going to do it the whole time. To put it lightly boomers are not decent human beings.
I feel with boomers what they do in the workforce is they keep raising the bar higher and higher until they find some small obsession and then use that as an excuse to discredit everything you’ve done.
To paraphrase someone else, people who aren’t yet awake to the problem think millennials and boomers and gen x and the silent generation are all rowing a boat and yes boomers may be rowing too slow but we’re all gonna get there eventually.
But it’s more like boomers rowed in the opposite direction of the other generations, sunk the boat and then grabbed the life vests from millennials so that they could each have 2 when their life vest was already a superior life vest.
“Not OK, Boomer: 4 Ways Baby Boomers Screwed the Future of Millennials”
What the article is omitting though, is that the Boomers have shifted the blame onto Millennials like a rapist shifts the blame onto a rape victim. The Millennials who are politically conscious suffer the most retaliation in the workplace.
The analogy I would make to free market obsessives is this.
Imagine that we’re all under captivity by ISIS. We know the odds of
survival are better if we praise Islam, convert religiously, etc.
Free marketers think that if they keep praising the economic system,
they might get a few crumbs. They’ll keep their 50k job while someone
like me will get fired.
If you take that black mail away, a lot of people would suddenly agree with me.
The interesting thing is that white people are supposed to do this. If
you’re white you’re supposed to remind everyone how great free
enterprise is every two seconds. Non-whites, however, are permitted to
go against this.
At the time, Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton said: “It’s a fact that if you play speech backwards, some of it will seem to make sense. So I asked permission to go into a studio and find some perfectly innocent phonetic flukes. The lawyers didn’t want to do it, but I insisted. We bought a copy of the Stained Class album in a local record shop, went into the studio, recorded it to tape, turned it over and played it backwards. Right away we found ‘Hey ma, my chair’s broken’ and ‘Give me a peppermint’ and ‘Help me keep a job’.”
Apparently if you play music backwards, you occasionally hear what kind of sound like messages but are really just coincidences. Analogously, this probably explains most religious believers. They make meaning out of things but believe the meaning was made and given to them.
This is the kind of crap that google diggers and background obsessives ruin in the HR business. They draw all sort of conclusions about someone and all their paranoia is frankly based on shifting shit. They won’t do the one thing that should actually be logical – see if the person is actually skilled or not. Instead it’s about everything else.
One of the biggest problems in IT is that the lambs tend to take credit for what the lions actually do, then they have the audacity to slander their intellectual superiors like a true parasite who doesn’t know that it can’t live without the host. I have nothing but a trackrecord of accomplishments when given a fair chance, but if you listened to drama whores, i was their work and lucky that they gave me a shot I didn’t deserve.
Even
if I’m losing the economic war you might say, I’m winning the public
opinion war. Most people reluctantly agree that America isn’t a merit
system and ass kissers get ahead instead of the most talented people
(particularly in corporate bureaucracies) when I press them on it.
Very few people have the nerve to respond to me saying “no, actually
it’s your own fault. The door was always open you just refused to walk
in it.” Those days are over, where mainly baby boomers had the
audacity to say that.
I’m convinced Americans are among the most stupid and arrogant people on the planet. They really believe life is fair and if you get a short end of the stick they believe you should never get a chance because your returns were your own doing.
What we have though, is a nation of cry babies and it’s gotten worse in the past 10-15 years. Instead of respecting the fact that someone gave you a black and white answer and had the cold honesty to do it, people coddle ass kissers. Nowhere is that more evident than the information technology field.
My “vision” on technology and computer programming is totally opposed to the nerdy computer science version. To me it’s about solving real life, practical problems – yes being innovative – but not being a bandwagonner. From my point of view, a business application can be written in very old technology as long as it runs correctly, just like the fact that 2 plus 2 = 4 never becomes outdated or the difference between a major and minor scale never changes in music. I’m totally opposed to useless bandwagonning.
